Education in the Health Professions
Materials for teaching and research in the medical education field.
Education Librarian
Best Bets for Articles
These databases are a great place to start.
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- ERICCitations and abstracts from the world's largest education database.
- Ebsco Education DatabasesSearches Education Source, Educational Administration Abstracts, ERIC and Academic Search Ultimate.
- Education SourceIndexes articles in education journals and magazines.
- PsycINFOScholarly psychology material including empirical research and peer reviewed journal articles.
- Education DatabaseOffering complete information on hundreds of educational topics.
- Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)-Web of ScienceSocial Sciences Citation Index®, accessed via Web of Science®, provides access to the bibliographic and citation information to find research data, analyze trends, journals and researchers.
- Google ScholarGoogle Scholar searches academic publishers, professional societies and pre-print archives.
- Chronicle of Higher EducationA source for in-depth articles and news on teaching and administrative issues facing colleges and universities. A key newspaper for postings of faculty jobs in higher education.
- Education WeekNews, blogs, reports, data, events and multimedia on current topics in education.
Medical Education Databases
Remember that the Welch Library has many more health professions resources.
- PubMedPubMed lists journal articles back to 1947. It indexes about 5,400 journals and covers the areas of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, preclinical sciences, and related areas.
- AccessMedicineAccessMedicine is a portal to several online medical resources. These include: Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2005, Hurst's The Heart, and textbooks in various medical specialties.
- ScopusScopus is a comprehensive scientific, medical, technical and social science database. Scopus also allows for citation searching back to 1996.
- Academic Search UltimateA scholarly database with full text for 5,300 publications as well as images, for nearly every academic field of study.
- CINAHLCINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.